Residential Electrical Metering

Advanced ANSI metering for the Smart Grid

Aclara’s I-210 product line continues the tradition to bring innovative and flexible
technology solutions that cover all your metering needs from basic electronic
energy-only meters to highly-flexible smart metering solutions that provide
advanced functionality to meet the evolving Smart Grid system needs.

Aclara’s family of meters go beyond meeting your complex business challenges.

The advanced, powerful and easy-to-use meters give you an extra edge in the
energy business. You can look forward to realtime instrumentation, power
quality monitoring and easy access to critical information. All these add up to
give you higher productivity, improved efficiency and reduced energy costs.

KEY BENEFITS Single Phase Meters

• Reliable and accurate cash register for utilities
• AMR/AMI Plug-n-Play functionality I-210+c
• Multiple communication technologies tied to AMI FULL FEATURED, SMART GRID
systems provide reliable data in a timely manner ENABLED METERING
• Smart metering functions such as Time of Use This is Aclara’s flagship residential
demand metering and service switch capabilities meter product, offering demand, load
• Demand side management through pre-payment profile, TOU, service switch, and a full
and demand limiting features complement of communication options.
• Advanced functions such as reactive measurement
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and, IEEE reliability indices measurement
VALUE PACKED SMART GRID
• Robust meter security and standards compliance
FUNCTIONS
COMMUNICATIONS World class accuracy and reliability
• Broad AMI/AMR Plug-n-Play options - RF Mesh, in a solid-state kWh meter platform
Power line carrier, Cellular, etc package. Available with a service
• Allows interchangeability of AMR/AMI Plug-n-Play switch, as well as a wide array of
options communications options.
• Supports connectivity and integration with
3rd party communications solutions providers
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SMART CONFIGURATION
• Ability to customize advanced metering options to suit customer’s needs
• Configure load profile, time of use and demand metering capabilities
• Versatile programming Softswitches allowing the selection of advanced functionality such as power quality
measurement and reactive power measurement
• Service Switch option improves operational efficiency and addresses issues such as demand side management, remote
repayment systems, and controlled outage restoration

RELIABILITY
• Robust revenue-grade watt-hour and demand meters
• Based on Aclara’s cutting edge technology providing typical 0.2% accuracy, and reliability
• Enable utilities with tools to lower operational cost and provide accurate metering solutions

RELIABLE METERING
In this dynamic time of regulatory scrutiny and customer engagement, you can be assured of the product and the company
behind the product. We have ANSI and ISO certified labs to ensure that our product design and manufacturing processes
yield a robust product every time.

Our testing procedures go well beyond the ANSI and IEC requirements for which we design to, including some of the most
aggressive internal standards in the market place today. We now have included world-class Radio Frequency (RF)
communications expertise to ensure that our meter products are hardened to withstand even the harshest of RF
environments without sacrificing the quality or integrity of the metrology or the communications technology.

ACCURATE & DEPENDABLE

Typically measured at +/- 0.2%, the Aclara I-210 family of meters provides best-inclass capabilities for accuracy. Combined
with the low starting watts, the utility can have confidence in the metered value and measured electricity usage.

INTEGRITY OF SUPPLY
Having a partner that can provide assurance in supply is critical when a utility begins a mass deployment of meters. Aclara’s
process focus and rigor around supply chain excellence minimizes the risk to the utility, giving them confidence to manage
installation crews and provide accurate scheduling to customers.

BROAD COMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT

The I-210 family has been designed to allow for the interchangeability of AMR/AMI modules and cover the broadest range of
possible AMI communication technologies including RF Mesh, Cellular, Power Line and Ethernet. Modules can be added at
the Aclara factory, after the fact, or replaced with another compatible module if the meter is redeployed.

ACLARA’S iiDEAS® OPERATIONAL DATA

MANAGEMENT PLATFORM
iiDEAS integrates head-end and meter data
management into one unified application.
Iideas aggregates AMI meter data with existing
utility applications and offers a single,
customizable interface for personnel to access
the critical data they need to better manage
their distribution infrastructure, optimize
operations and improve service reliability.

AMI meter data is significantly enhanced by the

aggregation of data from such systems as GIS,
OMS, CIS and SCADA. iiDEAS uses standard
interfaces such as MultiSpeak and CIM to
integrate with these systems. iiDEAS also
provides a range of advanced analytics
including loss analysis, transformer analysis,
voltage analysis and fault detection and
localization.

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Full featured, Smart Grid Meter

I-210+c
SMART GRID ENABLED, CONSUMER FRIENDLY METERING
Aclara’s most advanced residential electricity metering product
line, the I-210+c, delivers Smart Grid capability for today and
the future. Derived from our industry leading commercial and
industrial product line, the kV2c, the I-210+c benefits from our
advanced metrology capability and lessons learned from over FEATURES & BENEFITS
10 years of solid state metering design. All the way down to the
advanced microprocessor, the I-210+c contains much of the
• Customize advanced metering options through
advanced polyphase functionality that Aclara has been known
for. We have also added capability that makes the I-210+c the SoftSwitches
referenced residential product line in the industry. • AMR/AMI Plug-n-Play designed to accommodate: -
Radio Frequency Mesh (RF Mesh)
CAPABILITY
- Radio Frequency Point-to-Multipoint
Designed for today’s dynamic rate structures, the I-210+c
provides capability for demand, load profile, and TOU - Cellular communications
recording, along with a number of other power quality and - Ethernet
demand response related functions. Configurable to support • Advanced functionality such as:
various metering quantities, this meter supports delivered (+), time-of-use, insensitive demand, load profile
received (-), and net metering for distributed generation. recording, event logging, voltage sag/swell
recording
ADVANCED FUNCTIONALITY
With the addition of the fully rated 200 amp service switch, • Typical accuracy: within +/- 0.2%
the meter is capable of pre-payment metering without all the • Service Switch to improve operational efficiency
historical cost associated with card readers or other legacy and address issues such as:
pre-payment technology. Load limiting and emergency - Demand side management
conservation modes set this meter apart when working in
- Remote prepayment systems
conjunction with a demand response program. Having the
capability to be remotely configured, as well as being firmware - Controlled outage restoration
upgradeable, this product serves today’s needs, as well as • Low starting watts; capture energy consumption at
tomorrow’s evolving requirements. levels typically not registered by electromechanical
meters
COMMUNICATIONS
• Low burden, which minimizes utility system losses
Designed to specifically accommodate the communications
technology required to support a Smart Grid, the I-210+c has • Patented tamper algorithm to detect tamper-by-
the same electrical and mechanical interface as our I-210+ meter inversion
platform, making communications interchangeable and • Meets or exceeds ANSI C12.1, C12.10, C12.20,
interoperable between these two residential metering C37.90.1 and and UL 2735
platforms.

AMR/AMI PLUG AND PLAY COMMUNICATIONS

Multiple communication options on the I-210+c allows greater customer choice. Ideally optimized for RF Mesh, PLC, 3G/4G
point-to-point communication technologies, the I-210+c can cover a wide variety of communication scenarios.

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Value packed, Smart Grid Meter

I-210+
LOAD MANAGEMENT
The I-210+ is one of the most popular single phase meters
among US utilities for residential metering installations.
Equipped with a fully-rated 200A service switch, this meter
platform is ideal to provide basic load management
functionality. FEATURES & BENEFITS

RELIABILITY
• AMR/AMI Plug and Play designed to
The I-210+ has enjoyed tremendous success in the marketplace accommodate: RF Mesh, RF Point-to-Multipoint,
for smart meters, with over 10 million units shipped since 2009. PLC, Ethernet
This product is the industry benchmark for quality and
• Typical accuracy: within +/-0.2%
reliability, having passed both internal and external validation
tests for billing accuracy. At Aclara, we have an unprecedented • Service Switch to improve efficiency and
testing and validation process to ensure that our products are address:
robust and exceed the industry standard ANSI requirements. -- demand side management
-- remote prepayment systems
We have substantial expertise in wireless communications and
the testing that is required to ensure that our meters perform -- controlled outage restoration
flawlessly, even in the harshest of radio frequency (RF) • Low starting watts; capture energy
environments. consumption at levels
• typically not registered by electromechanical
COMMUNICATIONS
meters
The I-210+ has the same electrical and mechanical interface
• Low burden, which minimizes utility system
as our I-210+c platform, designed to specifically accommodate
Smart Grid communications technology, making losses
communications interchangeable and interoperable between • Meet or exceeds ANSI C12.1, C12.10, C12.20,
these two residential metering platforms. Multiple RF Mesh and C37.90.1
PLC communication technologies are supported with a newly
updated power supply.

Factory Integrated Communication Options for I-210+ and I-210+c Meters

AMI Technologies Type I210+ I210+c

Aclara TWACS PLC •

RF P2MP •
Itron Single ERT HP (54-56ESS) 1-way RF AMR •
Itron Triple ERT HP (57ESS) 1-way RF AMR •
Itron EVDO & HSPA Cellular (3G) •
Sensus Flexnet™ RF P2MP •1
Silver Springs Networks© NIC 410 RF Mesh •1
Silver Springs Networks© NIC 510 RF Mesh •1
Silver Springs Networks© MicroAP Cellular & RF Mesh •1
Trilliant RPMA RF P2MP • •1
Trilliant SecureMesh™ RF Mesh • •
Note 1 : Optional UL Certified Meter

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Full featured, Secure Metering Software

MeterMate
SMART GRID ENABLED, CONSUMER FRIENDLY
METERING
Aclara’s innovative MeterMate™ software suite
enables meter administrators to easily configure
and manage Aclara meters. Each software
component in the MeterMate suite is optimized to
address the different aspects of a meter’s lifecycle.
MeterMate program creation software enables the
user to effortlessly configure the meter’s basic and
advanced functionality, ranging from creating a
FEATURES & BENEFITS
simple demand program and setting up the meter
display to configuring the meter’s I/O and alerts.
With MeterMate reading and programming • One software suite to configure and read from the
software, a user can read, program and perform Aclara portfolio of meters: kV family, I-210 family
real-time instrumentation and power quality and SGM3xxx family
monitoring on a meter, via a variety of different • Supports the ANSI C12.19 communication protocol
communication methods such as local OPTOCOM,
remote telephone, RS-232/485 and IP • Multiple methods to communicate with meters:
communications. USB & RS232 OPTOCOM, RS485, Modem
• Modular configuration workflow that enable the
The MeterMate software also supports many reuse of frequently used configuration settings
functions such as: and measurements
• Analysis of load profile data • Various reports to display information for meter
• Firmware upgrades management, auditing, billing and monitoring
• Exporting of meter data to the MV-90 HHF power quality
format • Command line interface and batch-control enabling
• Configuration for automatic remote meter automated and scheduled meter operations
reading • Configurable role-based access control security
• Direct table reads
• Conversion of meter configuration to an XML file
format for AMI over-the-air configuration
• Comparison of a configuration from the
database to a configured meter
• Opening and closing the meter service switch
• Importing and exporting of load profile data,
event log data, configurations and security
codes

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Residential Meter Selector
Product Characteristics I-210+ Basic Energy I-120+c

• Real Energy Consumption Management

1 Meter Functionality
• Real Energy Consumption Management
• Reactive Energy Consumption Measurement
• Apparent Energy Consumption Measurement
• Voltage Measurement (Min, Avg, Max)
• Sag/Swell Measurement
• Outage Count and Duration

FORM CLASS VOLTS FORM CLASS VOLTS

1S 100 120 & 240 1S 100 120 & 240

2S 200 & 320 240 2S 200 & 320 240
2 ANSI Models 3S & 3CS 20 120 & 240 3S & 3CS 20 120 & 240
4S 20 240 4S 20 240
12S 200 & 320 120 & 240 12S 200 & 320 120 & 240
25S 200 & 320 120 & 240 25S 200 & 320 120 & 240

• Optional Soft-switches can be loaded in the factory or by the user to activate

• Optional Softswitches can be loaded in the factory or by the user
to activate advanced functions
Soft-Switches to upgrade O — Activates communication capability with AMR/AMI modules
3 meter function S2 — AMI/AMR calculated demand displayed on meter LCD
V2 — Simple Voltage Event monitor in addition to a display of RMS
momentary voltage on the 3 lower LCD digits
advanced functions
A2 — Activates communication capability with AMR/AMI modules
E2 — Activates Event Log Recording (up to 200 Events)
K2 — Activates Reactive/Apparent Energy Consumption recording
N2 — Activates Demand
Q2 — Activates Instrument Recording
R2 — Activates LP recording (up to 4 channels)
T2 — Activates TOU recording
V2 — Activates Sag/Swell monitor and recording

AMR Interface • Quadrature Pulse

• SPI Format-1 data
4 (Factory enabled or installed • SPI Format-2 data • PSEM Communications
by customer) • PSEM Communications

• Specified at time of order for factory programmed meters or configured by

5 Energy Accumulation
6 Cycle Insensitive Demand
• With V2 Softswitch enabled, provides a count of
7 Power Quality
the customer using MeterMate. Any two or four of the following energy
measurements can be selected:
• Must specify at time of order either: - Delivered only kWh
- Delivered only - Received only kWh
- Delivered + Received - Delivered + received kWh
- Delivered – Received - Delivered – received kWh
- Received only - Lagging only kvarh; requires K2 Soft-switch
• Customer can change selection later using MeterMate - Leading only kvarh; requires K2 Soft-switch
- Lagging + Leading kvarh; requires K2 Soft-switch
- Lagging - Leading kvarh; requires K2 Soft-switch
- Phasor apparent VAh; requires K2 Soft-switch
Requires T2 & N2 Soft-switches to be enabled
• Provides an alternative method for calculating the maximum demand in
meters equipped with one-way AMR system.
• The meter maintains the daily maximum demands and the two peaks for the
• Not available period.
• Demand is calculated using the programmed method (Block, rolling or
thermal).
• The daily maximum demands are stored in a circular queue.
• Each entry in the circular queue contains a date
• With Q2 and R2 Softswitches enabled, Min, Max and Average Voltage
recording is possible.
• With V2 Softswitch enabled, provides counts and magnitude recording of
Sag/Swell Events with date and time stamped. Value and duration thresholds
Sag/Swell Events. Value and duration thresholds are are programmable. This Sag/Swell Event Log is separate from the Event Log
programmable recording provided by the E2 Softswitch
• With E2, R2 and T2 Softswitches enabled, recording of sustained and total
outage counts and duration is possible to permit calculation of IEEE
Reliability indices.

Back-up power is used to maintain the meter clock during outages. If the R2 or
T2 softswitch is required, one of the following back-up power options must be
selected.
8 Back-up power • Not available • Battery
• Supercap
• Batteryless operation. For batteryless operation, the AMI system must be
able to re- synchronize the meter clock after a power outage

• A switching device intended to provide remote controllable

Service Switch
(provide remote controllable
disconnection and
9 - Remote disconnect and reconnect of service
reconnection of electrical
service for residential
applications)
disconnection and reconnection of electrical service for
residential applications.
• Factory installed option, specify at time of order.
• Full functionality requires two-way AMI module
• Switch is installed under standard size cover
• Typical applications include:
- Energy conservation demand limiting
- Demand limiting as an alternative to service disconnection
- Prepayment metering
- Outage management/restoration
Note: Energy conservation demand limiting and prepayment
metering functionalities are not available on forms 12S and 25S.
• A switching device intended to provide remote controllable disconnection
and reconnection of electrical service for residential applications.
• Factory installed option, specify at time of order.
• Full functionality requires two-way AMI module
• Switch is installed under standard size cover
• Typical applications include:
- Remote disconnect and reconnect of service
- Energy conservation demand limiting
- Demand limiting as an alternative to service disconnection
- Prepayment metering
- Outage management/restoration

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Technical Specifications
I-210+ c Accuracy
Typical Accuracy: Within +/- 0.2%
Basic Functions Starting Watts: 12W @ 240V, 6W @ 120V
Single Phase Demand Meter Typical Watt Loss: 0.7 Watts
– Energy management, 4 quantities
– Demand, block or rolling demand Rating
– Fundamental plus harmonic measurements Voltage: 120V –240V
- Bi-directional energy measurements Current: Class 100, Class 200, Class 320, Class 20
Load Profile recording Frequency: 50 or 60 Hz
Time of Use Billing Measures Cover Options
Four Energy options (Delivered, Received, Delivered+Received, Delivered -Received) Polycarbonate over with molded sunshield
Tamper detect capability – Plain cover without RESET or “D” ring
Broad communication module options – With Optocom “D” ring
Network applications – With RESET latch and “D” ring
Models available for 120 or 240 volt CL 20, CL 100, 200, CL 320 applications. Operation Range
50 or 60 Hz operation Voltage: +/- 20%
Optional Functions Operates over a broad temperaure range (-40C through +85C under the cover)
Factory integrated Service Switch Capability Available Models
Soft-Switch Functions ANSI Form 1S, 2S, 3S, 4S, 12S, 25S
– The Alternate Communication Soft-switch allows a communication option option board to CL20, CL100, CL200, CL320
communication with the meter Applicable Standards
E2 Soft-switch Performance meets or exceeds industry standards
– The Event Log Soft-switch allows the meter to track the most recent 200 events. Use ANSI C12.19
MeterMateTM Program Manager, Diagnostics Editor, to select the event types to be logged ANSI C12.1
and how many occurences should be tracked, up to a maximum of 200 events. Date and ANSI C12.10
time stamps are included on logged events for Demand/LP or TOU meters ANSI C12.20
K2 Soft-switch ANSI C37.90.1
The kVA and kvar Soft-switch adds kVA(h) and kva(h) measurement capability. UL 2735
N2 Soft-switch
LCD Display
– The Demand (N2) Soft-switch adds billing demand calculations.
6 large charaters to display the main programmed metering quantities
Q2 Soft-switch
The Instrumentation Measurements Soft-switch enables
– Voltage (L-N): VA (max, min store) for summations, demand, and load profile recording
T
– RMS voltage measurement for reading and display EA
SL
k Wh
ABCD
– Low potential caution ST

– Temperature (max, min,avg) load profile recording

T2 Soft-switch Weights and Dimensions
Dimensions
The time-of-use soft-switch enables TYOU operation 6.94 in. Max
– Up to four TOU periods and four Seasons
– Up to three daily rate schedule types and one holiday schedule
– Up to 80 TOU schedule set points
– Up to 50 programmable dates
– Holidays, season changes, Daylight Savings Time (DST), self-read, and demand reset 5.25 in. Max
– Perpetual calendar handles most dates Approximate Weight
– Up to two billing and two demand measures per TOU period Meters with service disconnect
– Self-read actions on specified dates, with o4r without a demand reset – Individual meter 2.0 - 2.4 lbs
V2 Soft-switch – 4 meter pack 9.0 - 10.6 lbs
– The voltage Soft-switch activates Sag/Swell monitor and recording – Pallet (120 meters) 285 - 340 lbs
Meters without service disconnect
1.3 - 1.7 lbs
6.2 - 7.8 lbs
– Pallet (120 meters) 200 - 255 lbs

I-210+
Basic Functions Rating
Basic function as electronic single phase Revenue Meter Voltage: 120V - 240V
Four energy options (delivered, received, delivered+received, delivered -received) Current: Class 100, Class 200, Class 320, Class 20
Tamper detect capability Frequency: 50 or 60 Hz
Broad communication module options Cover Options
Network applications Polycarbonate cover with molded sunshield
Models available for 120 or 240 volt CL 20, CL 100, 200, CL 320 applications. – Plain cover without RESET or “D” ring
50 or 60 Hz operation – With Optocom “D” ring
Optional Functions Operating Range
Factory integrated Service Switch Capability Voltage +/- 20%
Soft-Switch Functions Operates over a broad temperature range (-40C through +85C under the cover)
AMR/AMI Communications (AMR/AMI Interface formats include quadrature pulse, PSEM, Available Models
SPI Format-1 data, SPI Format-2 Data) ANSI Form 1S, 2S, 3S, 4S, 12S, 25S
Display AMR calculated Demand value shown on the lower 3 LCD digits CL20, CL100, CL200, CL320
Simple Voltage Event monitoring in addition to RMS momentary voltage display
Applicable Standards
Performance meets or exceeds industry standards ANSI C12.1
ANSI C12.10
ANSI C12.20
ANSI C37.90.1

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Technical Specifications
I-210+ (cont'd)

Soft-Switch Functions
5 large characters to display the billing quantities

k Wh
k Wh Received
Delivered

Weights and Dimensions

Dimensions
6.94 in. Max

5.25 in. Max

Approximate Weight
Meters with service disconnect
– Individual meter 2.0 – 2.4 lbs
– 4 meter pack 9.0 – 10.6 lbs
– Pallet (120 meters) 285 –340 lbs
Meters without service disconnect
– Individual meter 1.3 – 1.7 lbs
– 4 meter pack 6.2 – 7.8 lbs
– Pallet (120 meters) 200 –255 lbs

Aclara is a world-class supplier of smart infrastructure solutions (SIS) to more than 800 water, gas, and electric utilities globally. Aclara SIS offerings include smart meters
and other field devices, advanced metering infrastructure and software and services that enable utilities to predict and respond to conditions, leverage their distribution
networks effectively and engage with their customers. Aclara is owned by an affiliate of Sun Capital Partners.
Visit us at Aclara.com, phone 800 297 2728 or contact us at info@aclara.com and follow us on Twitter @AclaraSolutions.

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